Richard B. Spencer

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Richard Spencer at the National Policy Institute conference on November 19, 2016

Richard Bertrand Spencer (* 11. May 1978 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American White Supremacy - activist . Spencer coined the catchphrase Alt-Right and is considered to have spread the ideology behind it.

Life

Richard Spencer was born in Boston and raised in Dallas . His father is an ophthalmologist . Spencer attended St. Mark's School of Texas. He enrolled in 1997 at the University of Virginia for music and English and closed in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts from. In 2003 he graduated from the University of Chicago with a Master of Arts . He was later a PhD student at Duke University , but left the university without a degree. Among other things, he was editor of the conservative bimonthly magazine The American Conservative (March to December 2007) and the political blog Taki's Magazine (2008/09).

Spencer is married to the Russian Nina Kouprianowa, who translated the writings of the Russian neo-fascist Alexander Dugin into English. The couple have a daughter. Spencer lives in Alexandria , Virginia and Whitefish , Montana .

Political activism

Spencer founded the online magazine Alternative Right in 2010 and thus coined the term Alt-Right . The central themes of the Alt-Right are a ban on immigration, a racist and anti-Semitic identity foundation for the supposedly oppressed and threatened white majority population and the fight against political correctness . Since 2011, Spencer has been president of the National Policy Institute think tank . According to its own account, the institute sees its main task in raising the awareness of white Americans, ensuring their biological and cultural continuity and protecting their civil rights . According to its own statements, the institute is researching the effects of the ongoing influx of non-Western immigrants on the national identity of Americans. In 2012 he founded the online magazine Radix Journal , of which two print editions were published, in which articles by Kevin B. MacDonald , Alex Kurtagić , Samuel T. Francis and Derek Turner were published. In October 2014, Spencer attempted to hold the National Policy Institute's annual conference in Budapest . However, he was arrested in Hungary, detained for three days and then deported.

In February 2017, Spencer was kicked out of the conference hotel while attempting to attend a CPAC conference , with his positions on Alt-Right being branded as "left fascism" by a leading organizer. He wrote a foreword to the German edition of the original anti-immigration novel Sea Changes by Derek Turner, originally published by the Washington Summit Publishers , which was published by Philip Stein's Jungeuropa Verlag at the beginning of 2018 . The right-wing populist magazine Compact published a four-page interview with Spencer in its July 2018 issue, in which Spencer described himself as an "identity" and the US President Donald Trump as "idiot".

Views

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center , Spencer is campaigning for the United States to become an " Aryan " country for the allegedly dispossessed white race. He wants to "ethnically cleanse the country peacefully" in order to stop the degradation of European culture. To do this, Spencer wants to remove African Americans, Latinos, and Jews from the United States. He believes that people of Latin American and African descent have lower IQs than white Americans; Furthermore, they have a genetic disposition to crime. Spencer fears that white Americans will be a minority in their own country and that the European heritage will be lost bit by bit. This would affect all areas of culture such as literature and art as well as cultural identity and ultimately everything. According to Spencer, Donald Trump is not a representative of the alt-right, but his victory is a first step towards more coherent politics. The electoral success of Trump's populism was not only deeply rooted in identity politics, but was also an initial success of this ideology in the USA. At the end of an event of the National Policy Institute on November 19, 2016 in Washington, DC , at which Trump's victory was celebrated, he called out to those present: “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” (German: “Heil Trump! Heil our people! Sieg Heil! "). Parts of the audience then showed the Hitler salute . The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned the conference's "hateful rhetoric". When asked about the conference, Trump said he did not know this group and did not want to give it a boost.

"US society is just basically bourgeois these days," Spencer told me on the phone. "[...] Her worldview is so corrosive to the middle class. She knows no higher values ​​than getting a pension and dying in bed. I find that deeply pathetic. In my opinion we need a bit more chaos in our politics, maybe we need a portion of this fascist spirit in our politics . "

- Jacob Siegel: The Alt-Right's Jewish Godfather

Spencer has sympathy for Russian President Vladimir Putin . He sees Russia as the "only white power in the world". At the right-wing demonstrations in Charlottesville in 2017 , he led a group of right-wing extremists who shouted "Russia is our friend". Spencer appears in Russian state media, where he can express his racist views unchallenged. He and his wife are frequent guests on Russia Today and Sputnik . Spencer maintains contacts with Alexander Dugin, whom he invited to the 2014 international conference "Racial Realists" in Budapest. Dugin has since been a regular contributor to Spencer's AltRight.com and Radix Journal websites . In return, Spencer contributes to Dugin's side, Katehon . Dugin's translated writings are published by Spencer's Washington Summit Publishers .

Channel deletion through Youtube

In June 2020, Youtube deleted Richard Spencer's channel and that of the National Policy Institute, which he led, because of hate speech .

Web links

  • Graeme Wood: His Fight - Portrait in The Atlantic , June 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Josh Harkinson: Meet the white nationalist trying to ride the Trump train to lasting power. In: Mother Jones . October 27, 2016, accessed November 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b American Racists Look for Allies in Russia . In: The Daily Beast , July 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Charlottesville's Alt-right Leaders Have a Passion for Vladimir Putin . In: Newsweek , August 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ sueddeutsche.de , November 22, 2016, Jörg Häntzschel: “Heil Trump! Hail our people! " (September 16, 2017)
  5. ↑ John Woodrow Cox: 'Let's party like it's 1933': Inside the alt-right world of Richard Spencer. In: The Washington Post . November 22, 2016, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Rosie Gray: A 'One-Stop Shop' for the Alt-Right. In: The Atlantic . January 12, 2017, accessed July 23, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Larry Keller: Paleocon Starts New Extreme-Right Magazine , on splcenter.com, March 15, 2010. Retrieved November 29, 2016
  8. ↑ a b Alt Right: A Primer about the New White Supremacy , on adl.org. Retrieved November 29, 2016
  9. ↑ a b c d Richard Bertrand Spencer , on splcenter.org. Retrieved November 21, 2016
  10. ^ A b Steve People: Energized white supremacists cheer Trump convention message , July 24, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  11. ↑ Radix Journal , on washsummit.com. Retrieved November 21, 2016
  12. ^ A Top Conservative Said the Alt-Right Are Actually 'Left-Wing Fascists' Time , February 23, 2017
  13. ^ Jungeuropa Verlag: Complete directory .
  14. ↑ "Trump is a bit of a sucker". In: Compact , 07/2018 of June 25, 2018, pp. 39–42.
  15. ↑ Alt-Right: Hippe Hasser , ZEIT of November 21, 2016, accessed on February 27, 2017
  16. ↑ Richard B. Spencer: We the Vanguard Now ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , radixjournal.com of November 9, 2016. Retrieved November 21, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radixjournal.com
  17. ↑ Fabian Reinbold: America's ultra-right celebrate in the center of power , spiegel.de, November 20, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
  18. ↑ 'Hail Trump!': White Nationalists Salute the President Elect , The Atlantic , November 21, 2016.
  19. ↑ Alan Rappeport: Civil rights groups call on Trump to denounce racism of Alt-Right. In: The New York Times . November 22, 2016, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  20. ^ Joseph Goldstein: Alt-Right exults in Donald Trump's election with a salute. In: The New York Times . November 20, 2016, accessed November 26, 2016 .
  21. ↑ 'Hail Trump!': Video of White Nationalists Cheering the President-Elect . In: The Atlantic . 
  22. ^ McCaskill, Nolan D .: Holocaust Museum condemns neo-Nazi conference . In: Politico . November 21, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  23. ^ Trump's Nazi helpers . Der Spiegel , 48/2016, November 26, 2016, p. 21
  24. ^ Jacob Siegel: The Alt-Right's Jewish Godfather , Tablet, November 29, 2016. “American society today is so just fundamentally bourgeois,” Spencer told me over the phone. “It's just so, pardon my French… it's so fucking middle-class in its values. There is no value higher than having a pension and dying in bed. I find that profoundly pathetic. So, yeah, I think we might need a little more chaos in our politics, we might need a bit of that fascist spirit in our politics. "
  25. ↑ Extremists Turn to a Leader to Protect Western Values: Vladimir Putin . In: The New York Times , December 3, 2016.
  26. ↑ Weekend Read: White nationalists who shouted "Russia is our friend" weren't just whistling Dixie . Southern Poverty Law Center, July 19, 2018.
  27. ↑ America's neo-Nazis don't look to Germany for inspiration. They look to Russia. . In: The Washington Post , August 22, 2017.
  28. ^ Budapest: Insights into the secret meeting of "racial realists" . In: Welt Online , October 6, 2014.
  29. ^ Anton Shekhovtsov: Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir . Routledge, New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-138-65863-9 , p. 302 .
  30. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: YouTube deletes six known right-wing extremist channels - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Spencer, Richard B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spencer, Richard Bertrand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publicist and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , United States